American cuisine

American cuisine consists of the cooking style and traditional dishes prepared in the United States.

Chicken Patties

Raising six kids on a teacher’s salary, my parents were always cooking on a budget. Being Catholic, with the requirement back then of meatless Fridays, Lent or not, this meant that we ate a lot of tuna macaroni salad and fried fish. My mother often made tuna patties for us, and less frequently, because they

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The Tomato Sandwich

College days are the days to remember. The sleepless nights, cram sessions right before finals, roommates, and tight budgets forced me to be creative about what I ate. I don’t know about you, but I have vivid memories of doctoring up ramen, stretching a can of tuna fish, and sometimes splurging at the campus café

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Corn fritters

These corn fritters are the latest addition to my summer recipe rotation. Fresh sweet corn made its first appearance at our farmers market this week. I was so excited to see it that I bought as many ears of corn as I could carry. After making my favorite corn salad and corn on the cob,

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